Sister Spit, described as “a legendary, raucous, and rowdy performance gang,” will visit Iowa City Monday, April 16, with a performance from 7 to 9 p.m. at Public Space One, 139 E. Washington St. in the basement of the Jefferson Building. The University of Iowa’s student and community-based group TransCollaborations is sponsoring the performance, which is free and open to the public.

Michelle Tea

The Sister Spit Tour will bring a vanload of multimedia, queer-centric brilliance of taste-makers, novelists, luminaries, chanteuses, performance artists, poets, and filmmakers.

The tour will feature the following: host Michelle Tea (Best Music Writing 2010, Chelsea Whistle, Valencia, and Rent Girl), who has been described as “The greatest cabaret artist of (v’s) generation”; (Hilton Als, The New Yorker) and star of John Cameron Mitchell’s groundbreaking film Shortbus,; Mx Justin Vivian Bond; writer and musician Brontez Purnell (FAG School, Younger Lovers, Gravy Train); performer and playwright Erin Markey (Green Eyes, Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail); comic artist and writer Cassie J Sneider (Fine Fine Music); and nationally-ranking slam poet and Mr. Transman 2010 Kit Yan.

For more information, visit: www.transcollaborations.wordpress.com.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program or for more information, contact stef shuster, co-organizer for TransCollaborations, at transcollaboration@gmail.com or 502-594-7094.

This event was made possible with support from UI Student Government.